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MDT 2010 Update 1 Intermittent Domain Join Failures

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I have been witnessing some domain join failures when using MDT for deployment of Windows 7 Enterprise SP1. I have seen this happen for more than one tech but it is not happening every time. On reviewing the netsetup.log for the affected machines, I have
also verified that it is occurring when contacting more than one domain controller, so it's probably not a replication issue. Below are the contents of two separate netsetup files, one successful and one failed. They are identical up to the point where the
one fails. Both computers had existing AD accounts and were running windows XP, we then imaged them with Windows 7 with no data restore. It appears that the failure occurred when attempting to reset the machine password. I only included the first pass of the
failed computer since each retry was exactly the same. Thanks!

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On the one that didn't work, it said access denied to update the existing machine account password. Was the pre-existing device that failed in a different OU than the pre-existing device that worked? Might be a delegation issue with where the
machines are in AD if they already exist.

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